Whish v. Public Service Commission
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Hinman, J.:
This is an application to review the action of the Public Service Commission, Second District, in determining as a matter of law that the provision of section 77 of the Railroad Law relating to vestibule cabs on locomotives could not be enforced by reason of the fact that Congress has asserted authority over the equipment of locomotives employed in interstate commerce, thus occupying the field to the exclusion of the State. Section 77 of the Railroad Law, as amended by chapter 649 of the Laws of 1918, provides that vestibuled cabs “ shall be so constructed as to attach to the sides…
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